"Dwayne E. Cooper" wrote in message
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On Sun, 28 May 2006 06:29:00 GMT, "Todd Copeland"
wrote:

SNIP
However, IMO, desecrating the American flag was enough to justify
a DQ. IMO, that's intolerable and merited some punishment.

So, let me get this straight. You think tearing up a light pole on a boat
with an American flag on it is desecration, yet people are allowed to burn
it as a protected act of "freedom of speech"?

Puh-lease!! Ike simply took his frustration out on a piece of equipment that
just happened to have the flag on it. There are real desecrations of the
flag going on in the world at times every day on TV it seems, and what Ike
did does not qualify IMO. Nowhere close.

I agree with womever said it eariler in this thread, BASS apparently needs
both a Golden Boy and a Whipping Boy and Ike has simply been annointed as
the Whipping Boy. And Whipping Boys usually get firmer punishment for even
the slighest of acts, even if they were as much perceived as they were real.
The perception youre espousing here is that he desecrated the flag, which I
disagree with. He desecrated a safety light that happened to be hosting a
Flag at the time. To hear the whiners over this act you'd think he ripped
the flag off, doused it in lighter fluid and set it ablaze.


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